My partner is Austrian, and she said, in Europe a house is a home, not an investment. It took her a while to understand the British way of thinking about a house as an investment vehicle, and our obsession with price rises. In Austria, you buy or self build one house then live in it for the rest of your life.
yes it's a very British thing ............. but it is as it is for this generation of 40 plus homeowners) , upset that and you loose a lot of voters, not just those homeowners but their children who will inherit well thanks to their parents life long mortgage slavery
generation after that ? ....... well they are just screwed frankly on many levels